Posthuman Worlds: Roberto Bolano's Narrative and Virtual Reality

Adolfo Cacheiro

Posthuman Worlds: Roberto Bolano's Narrative and Virtual Reality
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Lexington Books
Country
United States
Published
15 March 2022
Pages
256
ISBN
9781793649874

Posthuman Worlds: Roberto Bolano’s Narrative and Virtual Reality

Adolfo Cacheiro

Posthuman Worlds: Roberto Bolano’s Narrative and Virtual Reality presents interpretations of several novels and one short story by Roberto Bolano. As befits the global setting of most of these narratives, they are analyzed from the perspective of global culture and politics. Particular attention is paid to transnational European politics, as this topic is central to an understanding of the intertwined themes of politics and the law in Bolano’s work. In Distant Star and Labyrinth, these themes exist within the context of a preoccupation with personal identity and ideology. Adolfo Cacheiro utilizes psychoanalytic interpretation and philosophical exegesis to clarify the subjective component of this preoccupation in the aforementioned texts. The law is also a prominent theme of The Savage Detectives, which Cacheiro interprets in relation to mythology. One of the most innovative aspects of this book is the discussion of the role of virtual reality in Amulet and 2666. These novels are read as representations of a posthuman world that manifest an intertextual relationship with science fiction. In 2666 virtual reality unifies the diverse components of a world system in time and space. A phenomenological investigation of this reality supports the conclusion that the principle subject matter of 2666 is a naturalistic theology based on technology.

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